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OAR AXLE BOX.

No. 252,591. Patented'JaJn. 17,1882.

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JOHN O. RICHARDSON, or UNION orrY, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR T Jennies. oooPEn, or sAMn PLAon.

CAR-AXLE Box.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 252,591, dated January 17, 1882.

Application filed October as, 1881. (No model.)

T 0 all whom it may concern? Be it known that I, J. G. RICHARDSON, a

\ citizen of the United States, residing atUnion City, Erie county, Pennsylvania, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Devices for Lubricating Railroad-Gar Axles; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and the letters or figures of reference marked thereon.

My invention relates to improvements in de- -vices for lubricating the journals of railwaycars.

Heretofore the devices for holding and feeding the lubricants to the journals of railwaycars have been very defective'in construction, and also in operation, on account of the means employed for absorbing the lubricants and feedingthe same with sutficient rapidity to the journals.

WVith my improved devices I overcome all defective means of lubricating the journals of railway-cars by means of the devices which will be hereinafter more fully described.

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents in longitudinal vertical section a railway-car axle-box containing my improved devices, with thejournal in side elevation. Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical section of my improved devices, taken in the direction of the dotted line x or of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 represents in perspective the oil or lubricating box for holding the conducting material. Fig. 4 represents intransverse vertical section a railwaycar axle-box and its journal, with my improved portable box and conducting material somewhat modified.

1n describing the various figures in connection with my invention, A indicates the railway-ear axle-box, which is secured between horns or guides win the ordinary manner, as shown at Fig 10f the accompanying drawings. The door A of said box is made sufficiently large so as to cover the end of the same, and it is secured or fastened by means of the bolt I). By making the said door sufficiently large the opening in the end of said boxA can ,be the full size ot'the same, which deviceofi'ers greater facilities for putting in and arranging the lubricants and their accompanying coning drawings.

ducting materials, On the inside and upper part of said box A is the bearing B, for receiving thejournaled end (3 and its collar 0 of the axle O.

The portable box E, which is filled w ith sponge D or other porous conducting material and the lubricant 0, is placed under thejournal C, which envelops the same about onet'ourth ofits circumference, and also the collar 0, which is the continuation of, and forms the extreme end of, said journal, all of which is fully shown at Figs. 1 and 2oftheaccompany- Said portable box E has on its topfa partial covering or 1edge,f, which is inclined inwardly and terminates in a hole or central opening, F, for receiving the conducting materials or sponge D and its lubricants O, as before stated. These. ledges may be thinedged, thus leaving an open space between the top and bottom. The sponge is partly inserted through the openinginto the chamber, and is held in place by the thin edges around the opening, which edges act afterthe manner of a wedge, leaving part of the sponge above and part belowthe top. A box made in this form dispenses with distinct and costly means for attaching the feeding device to the lubricating-oil receptacle. The shaft is also partly encircled by the feeder, thus preventing the oil, to a great extent, from being thrown against the walls of the axle-box. As said box E fits closely inside the box A,all surplus oil or other lubricating material that may be thrown againstthe sides ofsaid box A through the centrifugal force of the journal 0 or from sudden concussion of the cars, flows on the sponge O, or on the inclined top or ledgef, and thence into the box E. On the bottom, and also on the opposite sides of the inside of said box E, are located barbed points 'i and tt",which are hinged so as to allow a slightmovement of said points under certain conditionsthat is, when removing the sponge or pushingit to one side in case heavy lubricants are used. Said barbed points are mainly designed to prevent the sponge from becoming disengaged from the box,which mightensue from various causes. Said box is also provided with a short tube or spout, G, and a stopper, g, as the lubricants son to the sponge D. By this arrangement the oil can .be conveyed to the bottom of said box E, without removing the same from the car-box A,thus making it very convenient and saving considerable time by using a box of my improved construction.

The inclined cover or ledgefcan be of any desired contour-straight, concave, or convex.

The convex coverf, (shown in Fig. 4,) and which is inclined downwardly until it comes within. a short distance of the bottom of. the box E, has many advantages. By such a construction the oilisnot soliableto surge through the pores of the sponge lrom undue agitation ofthe cars, (as the conducting material D does not entirely till the box E, .but terminates on the bottom of said box, and almost within the inclosnre of the terminating ends of said convex coverffl) as the, lubricant would naturally surge and force against the inside confines ofv said boxE, and thus spend its energy without increasing to excess the flowoftheoil or other lubricants through the sponge or other-conducting material.

I do not confine myself to the exact construe-- tion shown of the box E, as it. can be of any desired contour without detriment to the'spirit of my invention. Nor do I'confine myself to the exact arrangementot' the cover orinclines, as shown in said box E, as other forms will work perhaps equally as well.

I am aware that Iubricating devices provided with a reservoir having its top sloping down- .wardly to allow the waste oil to run back into the reservoir are old; but this form difl'ers from mine in that the top does not partlyoverlap and holdthe feeding device in place. I therefore make no claim to the sloping top, per se hilt What I do claim as new is- 1. In a car-axle-lubricating device, a portable feed-box havinga top provided with an oblong opening, for the purpose set forth, a packing or absorbent material held in place by the overhanging ledges ot the top, and a supply-spout located outside the sides ot'the box, for the purpose described.

2. A lubricator for railway or other carjournals, provided with a sponge or other porous material, in combination with a portable box, IE, havinghinged barbed points i and i, and. a spoutor tube, G, for the purposes as herein described and shown.

3. In a lubricator, a portable box or reservoir, having barbed points attached at suitable places upon the inner surface for holding its feeding device in place,subv tantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I. have hereunto set my hand this 8th day of September, 1881.

JOHN C. RICHARDSON.

Witnesses:

WM. 0. J ACKSON, JENNIE It. COOPER. 

